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Find You
03:22
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Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
I've seen you flaunt it all and more
I've seen you flickering for shore
I see you've fallen for my calls
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
I've seen you flaunt it all and more
I've seen you flickering for shore
I see you've fallen for my calls
Reflected through the waterfall
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Find you, I only wanted to find you, find you
Find you
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Cardigan's Fable
03:21
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Tell 'em yeah we ran to L.A.
Tie your mother down in L.A.
Sell 'em while you're all in L.A.
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
Come and break it off completely
I cannot be passions slave
Kisses and we'll stop pretending
Buried in the pilgrim's age
Come and grab the grown contestant
I can hear your silent sigh
Dearest deadened from the fable
Burn the master in the fire
Tell 'em yeah we ran to L.A.
Tie your mother down in L.A.
Sell 'em while you're all in L.A.
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
Come and break it off completely
I cannot be passions slave
Kisses and we'll stop pretending
Buried in the pilgrim's age
Come and grab the grown contestant
I can hear your silent sighs
Dearest deadened from the fable
Burn the demons in the fire
Tell 'em yeah we ran to L.A.
Tie your mother down in L.A.
Sell 'em while you're all in L.A.
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
Try your hand, et tu...
Sha, sha, sha, sha, sha, sha
Tell 'em yeah we ran to L.A.
Tie your mother down in L.A.
Sell 'em while you're all in L.A.
Tie your mother down in L.A.
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
Try your hand, et tu Brute?
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3. |
K9 (Return of Youth)
04:08
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Is it a sign that I pray for you?
Nothing to hide what I want from you
It's in my design that I prey on you
Such a refined point of returned youth
Is it a sign that I pray for you?
Nothing to hide what I want from you
It's in my design that I prey on you
Such a refined point of returned youth
Return youth, return youth
And when you stand
It's in my design
It's when you stand
Take off your disguise
Return youth, return youth
Secrets aside and I pray for you
Nothing to hide what I want from you
It's in my design that I prey on you
Perfectly fine point of returned youth
We know he took it to the grave
And yet it'd never change
And when you stand
It's in my design
It's when you stand
Take off your disguise
There was a time that I wrote for you
And there were times when I called for you
There in the light where I stood for you
You cant deny that I spoke the truth
Return youth, return youth
So much for Mr. Nice Guy
Giving it up for the wrong ones
Giving it up to the wrong guns, wrong guns
Giving it up to the wrong guns
Giving it up and late as usual
What I need from you is what I want from you
So much for Mr. Nice Guy
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4. |
What if I
03:10
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It's around the corner
It's around the corner
Coming ever closer
It's around the corner
It's around the corner
It's around the corner
Coming ever closer
It's around the corner
What if I wanted to meet you?
What if I wanted to meet you? Yeah
What if I want to unleash it?
What if I wanted to meet you? Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
What if I wanted to meet you?
What if I wanted to meet you? Yeah
What if I want to unleash it?
What if I wanted to meet you? Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah (Ahhh-la-la-la)
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Ahhh-la-la-la)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah (Ahhh-la-la-la)
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Ahhh-la-la-la)
Just around the corner
Just around the corner
Coming ever closer
Just around the corner
Just around the corner
Just around the corner
Coming ever closer
It's just around the corner
Just around the corner
Just around the corner
Coming ever closer
Just around the corner
It's just around the corner
It's just around the corner
It's just around the corner
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5. |
Mirror Matches
05:05
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'Til the end of time
'Til the break of day
'Til the speaker stops to listen
As we paddle out
As we crash the waves
As we settle in
Take the pain away
Since it lingers on
Since it's all along
Since it takes our interest so quickly, takes our interest
For all you know
The mirror matches you
And for all it throws
Sent twice as fast at you
'Til the end of time
'Til the break of day
'Til the speaker stops to listen
As we paddle out
As we crash the waves
As we settle in
Take the pain away
For all you know
The mirror matches you
And for all it throws
Sent twice as fast at you
Twice as fast at you
For all you know
The mirror matches you
And for all it throws
Sent twice as fast at you
Twice as fast at you
Notions of notions, some psychotic potions
Notions of notions, chromatic corrosion
Don't wait too long, don't wait too long
They're watching you, they're watching me
They're watching every move you make
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6. |
Idle Tears
04:02
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All my friends weren't friends at all
I'm the salt of the earth
All my life I loved them all
I'm a fool of the earth
Took my car and drove it on
Off the face of the earth
All my life I loved them all
I'm a fool but I can't take these...
Tears, idle tears
Idle tears, idle tears
All my friends weren't friends at all
I'm a fool of the earth
All my life I loved them all
I'm the salt of the earth
Take my car and drive it on
Off the face of the earth
All my life I loved them all
I'm a fool but I can't take these...
Tears, idle tears
Idle tears, idle tears
Go and walk away from me
Go and walk away from me
Go and walk away from me
Go and walk away from me
Go and walk away from me
Go and walk away from me
Go and walk away from me
Go and walk away from me
I'm a fool but I can't take these...
Tears, idle tears
Idle tears, idle tears
Idle tears, idle tears
Idle tears, idle tears
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7. |
The Hornet's Eye is Grey
03:44
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Meet me in the sideyard
Speaking of the yard
These leaves all around me
Are just like all of my thoughts
Tumbling 'top the hard lawn
Briskly toward the barn
Sweetly and so swiftly
Race 'round all chasing on
Chasing on... and on
Chasing on... and on
Won't they wait for me to study
All the tricks they had to
Cover up, the hornet's eye is grey
Wait for me to study
All the tricks they had to
Cover up, the hornet's eye is grey
Meet me in the sideyard
Speaking of the yard
These leaves all around me
Are just like all of my thoughts
Chasing on... and on
Chasing on... and on
I forgave you and myself for what I said and what you dealt
But there was damage done beyond a quick repair
As I moved you kept along, I am the sleeping bear
I am the sleeping bear
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Digitalis
02:31
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Ask me again about the switch and if I wanted it
Ask me again if I'm in it or if I'm offended
When you're this sick it makes me rich could you hold off below
And you're so sweet it makes me itch beneath the neon glow
Can't you see I'm busy
What's the problem honey, I'm running out of tape
Can't you see that you're better off away
Can't you see that you're better off away
Ask me again about the glitch and if I captured it
When you're this sick it makes me rich and then I'm over it
Why can't you see we're better off going the other way
I'm the apple to your orange in the blue decay
Can't you see I'm busy
What's the story glory, I'm running out of lane
Can't you see that you're better off away
Can't you see that you're better off away
Can't you see that you're better off away
Can't you see that you're better... (oh f***)
Can't you see that you're better off away
Can't you see that you're better off away
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9. |
Over Harbors
03:46
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Hold this song
Keep it there with you
It won't be long
It won't be long
Hold this song
Take it there with you
It won't be long
It won't be long
Then you'll fly
Then you'll
Then you'll fly...
Over harbors, over harbors
Hold this song
Keep it there with you
It won't be long
It won't be long
Then you'll fly
Then you'll
Then you'll fly...
Over harbors, over harbors
Over harbors, over harbors
Over harbors, over harbors
I just wanna let you know
The green light
Of the night
It still works
And it's in my possession, my possession
Over harbors, over harbors
You'll fly free as a bird you'll fly
Over harbors, over harbors
You'll fly free as a bird you'll fly
Over harbors, over harbors
You'll fly free as a bird you'll fly
Over harbors, over harbors
You'll fly free as a bird you'll fly
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10. |
Barricada Rota
03:58
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Never had a hand to hold
From magnetic catches
Pictures dropped inside a box, exit of Eden
Never had a hand to hold
Sure enough hands fell down and
Taking on the masses
Pages flutter in the dark and cross the seasons
Sure enough hands fell down and
This is why the shadow lasts
This is how the Easterns cast
This is where the ocean traps
This is where you turn around, this is who confounds us all
Barricada rota, barricada rota
Barricada rota, barricada rota
Embers make a softer bed
Thought I'd felt those patches
Poems burrow themselves in a well of demons
Embers make a softer bed
This is why the shadow lasts
This is how the Easterns cast
This is where the ocean traps
This is where you turn around, this is who confounds us all
Barricada rota, barricada rota
Barricada rota, barricada rota
There's one and only, one and only you
The truth consoling, one and only you
There's one and only, one and only you
The truth consoling, one and only you
Barricada rota, barricada rota
Barricada rota, barricada rota
Barricada rota, barricada rota
Barricada rota, barricada rota
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11. |
Save Room For the Water
03:10
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You say you will but you never do
Teach me about the rain
You're coat comes off you're on the run
And you ain't got much to say
You raise your hands and search the air
When I'm here in your face
You take off with you're on and off again
And leave me out in the rain
Out of state forecast / Asking for an autograph
Out of state forecast / Strip me down and make me laugh
Out of state forecast / Asking for an autograph
Out of state forecast / Kiss me on the hourglass
You say you will but you never do
Teach me about the rain
You're coat comes off, you're coat comes off
You're coat comes off, you're coat comes off
Out of state forecast / Asking for an autograph
Out of state forecast / Strip me down and make me laugh
Out of state forecast / Asking for an autograph
Out of state forecast / Kiss me on the hourglass
You're coat comes off
You're coat comes off
Out of state forecast
Out of state forecast
Kiss me on the hourglass
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12. |
My Alibi
03:19
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I looked at you on a rock without a clue
Now I know why, now I know why
Gone to the moon and I know just what to do
That was my alibi, my alibi
Fell in a pond on her heart lay the fronds
Now I know why, now I know why
What had thrown you in
Was it in the wind
Now I know what I did was love
I saw you first took you down to the hearse
That was my alibi, my alibi
I looked at you as they fed you to the roots
And inside is where I cried, inside is where I cried
Held you in my room
Held them to my tune
Now I know what I did was out of love
Held you in my room
Held them to my tune
Now I know what I did was out of love
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Formed in 2006, The Velvet Ants found their niche in the underground alt/rock music scene.
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